Deke Clinger wrote:

> Um, no, that's not going to do very much. Since 3des and md5 are
> trapdoor algorithms there's no way to extract the plaintext password
> from one of them to translate it to the other. At the very least
> you'll have to set up a mechanism to hash new passwords into md5 and
> then ask all your users to change their passwords.

No - I didn't mean convert the passwords from one form to another. I just
meant I wanted new passwords to be in the MD5 form.

Jeremy

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